Marquetry Jewellery Box

First off, here’s a photo that shows why I like to use self adhesive shelf paper for initial assembly. It allows me to set the piece up with equal ...

I left off last time with this photo from “Masterpieces of Marquetry” that I chose to adorn the bump-out verticals where the centre drawers stick o...

Up until now I had been laying out my painting in wood layers by hand using lines that extended beyond the edges of the veneer area and after placi...

Last entry I had just started cutting the top marquetry. This is the most complex piece I have attempted and yes that was also the case when I cut ...

Warning: Lots of photos! Here’s my setup for sand shading one piece at a time. The marquetry has been preliminarily assembled on sticky shelf paper...

With the marquetry all done and mounted the focus turns to getting the carcass finished and glued up and to the finishing details. First up is to g...

Well I’m back home in Canada and after getting a bunch of household maintenance jobs out of the way and spending a very long time getting the surfa...